J. D. Salinger Quotes

Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello. - J. D. Salinger

When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. - J. D. Salinger

What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by, or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. - J. D. Salinger

To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it really is, right? - J. D. Salinger

This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. - J. D. Salinger

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. - J. D. Salinger

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. - J. D. Salinger

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them. - J. D. Salinger

The satisfaction was short-lived, but very very good while it lasted. - J. D. Salinger

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